Positive Association between Patients’ Perception of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation as a Personally Meaningful Experience and the Flourishing Aspect of Well-Being
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Design
2.2. Participants
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Scales
2.4.1. Pain Interference
2.4.2. Flourishing
2.4.3. Meaningfulness in Rehabilitation
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Demographics (n = 48) | Frequency (%) |
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Gender: * | |
female | 39 (81%) |
male | 9 (19%) |
Duration of chronic pain: | |
6–12 months | 2 (4.2%) |
1–5 years | 19 (39.5%) |
5–10 years | 6 (12.5%) |
>10 years | 21 (43.8%) |
Type of practice attended: | |
specialist | 7 (14.6%) |
generalist | 30 (62.5%) |
unknown | 11 (22.9%) |
How rehabilitation was resolved #: | |
therapist considered resolved | 4 (8.3%) |
therapist unable to resolve | 4 (8.3%) |
I considered resolved | 2 (4.2%) |
I felt not improved | 14 (29.2%) |
other | 24 (50%) |
Frequency of appointments: | |
more than once/week | 8 (16.7%) |
once/week | 16 (33.4%) |
once/fortnight | 14 (29.1%) |
once/month | 3 (6.3%) |
other | 7 (14.6%) |
Independent Variable | Dependent Variable | Results |
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Gender 1 | MRS13 | Mann–Whitney U test showed no significant difference between the MRS13 scores of females and males (U = 200.500 OR z = 0.661, p = 0.515) |
Duration of chronic pain 2 | MRS13 | Kruskal–Wallis test showed no significant difference in MRS13 scores between chronic pain duration categories #, χ2 (3, n = 48) = 0.480, p = 0.923 |
Type of therapy practice 3 | MRS13 | Kruskal–Wallis test showed no significant difference in MRS13 scores between practice categories 3, χ2 (2, N = 48) = 2.977, p = 0.226 |
Frequency of appointments 4 | MRS13 | Kruskal–Wallis test showed no significant difference in MRS13 scores between frequency of appointment categories 4, χ2 (4, N = 48) = 1.108, p = 0.893 |
Resolution of rehabilitation 5 | MRS13 | Kruskal–Wallis test showed no significant difference in MRS13 scores between resolution of rehabilitation categories 5, χ2 (4, N = 48) = 6.948, p = 0.139 |
Age | MRS13 | Spearman’s Rho test showed a weak positive correlation between age and MRS13 score that was not statistically significant, rs(46) = 0.062, p = 0.675 |
MRS13 6 | PROMIS Pain Interference 8a 7 | Spearman’s Rho test showed a weak negative correlation between PI8a score and MRS13 score that was not statistically significant, rs(46) = −0.10, p = 0.489 |
MRS13 | Flourishing Scale 8 | Spearman’s Rho test showed a moderate positive correlation between FS8 score and MRS13 score that was statistically significant, rs(46) = 0.405, p = 0.004 |
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Liddiard, K.J.; Brown, C.A.; Raynor, A.J. Positive Association between Patients’ Perception of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation as a Personally Meaningful Experience and the Flourishing Aspect of Well-Being. Healthcare 2024, 12, 1655. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161655
Liddiard KJ, Brown CA, Raynor AJ. Positive Association between Patients’ Perception of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation as a Personally Meaningful Experience and the Flourishing Aspect of Well-Being. Healthcare. 2024; 12(16):1655. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161655
Chicago/Turabian StyleLiddiard, Katrina J., Cary A. Brown, and Annette J. Raynor. 2024. "Positive Association between Patients’ Perception of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation as a Personally Meaningful Experience and the Flourishing Aspect of Well-Being" Healthcare 12, no. 16: 1655. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161655